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a magazine VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 5

of understanding MAY, 1964

Americoll Stock Photo

GENERAL OF THE ARMY DOUGLAS MACARTHUR-1880-1964

~~ourREADERSSAY What Do You R ead FirSt? "I have JUSt finished reading this month's copy of The PLAIN TRUTH magazine. I have but one fault with [his publication. Ir JUSt isn't big enough. 1 read it from cover to cover. The letters from (he readers come first and nex t

the ediror's article: Clarence H. S., Michigan

the Biblel The first, Ottf' atmospbere, is where the bi,d, fly, and clouds fo,m. T be second, outer space, is where the stars, gtliaxies and c01lJteliati01tS orbit. The TH IRD ([[ Co,. 12:2) i, the place of God's THRONE, to which "NO MAN HATH ASCENDED" except i1l VISION, did lohn! Eliillh wa' take1l "p into the AIR, not the Heaven of God's throne. David i, NOT in heav", (Act, 2:34). Y01t Can read the Bible 'lUitb CONFf·

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VOL. XX IX Circulation : 500,000

Published monchly at Pasadena, Ca.lifornia; Londoll , En,lliand: and Melbou rne. Austra lia, by Am bassador College. Germa.n and French edicions published mo nchly at London. Engl:and. @ 1964, by Amb:usildor CoHes.e.

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Garner Ted Armstrong MA N AG ING EDITOR

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That $1000 Offer

DENeE, B.E.!

"Well, I reckon you have spent your $1000.00 you offered in rhe April PLAIN TRUTH, page 2, column 2. The rwo verses rhar ger me rhe S1000.00 are II Kings 2:1 and 2:11."

Albert Einstein

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Greenville, Texas • Then how do you explain. Elijah'] letcer, ROYI written much later. anti "'om, at'tother place on earth? (see II ehron. 21:12-15). We',e taki1lg the libe,t" to se12d yO1/. ottr free booklet} tlWhere are Enoch and Elijah?" "In your April issue under 'personal' from the EditOr, you state thar Christ said 'no man had ascended up to heaven, except that He Himself had come down to eanh from heaven.'

"I can't understand how that agrees with the passage in II Kings chapter 2, verse II, whereas it states thac 'Elijah did ascend up into heaven.' "Can chis be explained in a manner that I will be able co read your writings again with confidence?"

B. E. S., Greensboro, Nonh Carolina • Let's go back and 1'eword tbat a little, B, E. It's not OUR WR:TlNGS )'01/1'C 'lU01Z. deri1lg aboltl-bttt the BIBLE! Y01t see, WE DIDN'T WRITE Christ'S plai1l statemelll 01 l ohn 3:13-JOHN did, u"de, i12spirati01l of the Holy Spi"it, So-it's not OUR WRIT INGS you're wonde-ring ab01tt reading with confidence, but the BIBLE! Briefly, however, tbere are THREE Ifbeavens" spoken of £',1

"I am wridng you co teli you how much I enjoy your PLAIN TRUTH. It has wonderful anicles, and is a very frank magazine. I wane you CO send a picture of Alben Einstein [hat you had on April's issue of The PLAIN TRUTH, and any informacion YOll have on him please . 1 need it for a class in school; it's very imponam."

Albert

"A word abom Mr. McNair's en· lightening anic1e 'Black Magic Returns to England.' In my aunc's home they have a type of spirit belief. My aunt used to go to church in Georgia .... My aunc and her oldest daughter say they communicate with spirits through automatic writing. They say everyone in the household has a spirit friend. I'm ceiling you they can have their spirirs. T wane norhing to do with spiritS,"

Dennis W. S., California "In your lase issue, the April one, on page 16, you scared rhar [Ellen G.) White was called a medium and inferred she consulted familiar spirits. You are very wrong of her. She preached sITongly against all such practices." Mrs. C. C. Fonville, Indiana • According to the open.ing statement.r iu a book entitled} Divine Predictions Ful1ilIed, autho, F. C. Gilbert, bim"ll a deV01tt Adventist, said, n, •. the htmum (Please comimte on page 22)

Auociate Editors Portune David Jon Hill Contributing Editors

C. Paul Meredith Basil \'{Ioiverron Charles V. Dorothy Lynn E. Torrance Jack R. EllionRobert E. Genter Ernest L Martin Robert C. Bomker 1. leroy Neff Gerhard O. Marx Clint C. Zimmerman

News Bltrcafl Director Gene H. Hogberg ReJearci:J Staff Donald 0, Schroeder Ronald D. McNeil

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Editorial and Prot/tlctioll Aui.rlams James W, Robinson Paul Kroll

Regio1Ja/ Editors Abroad Uniced Kingdom: Raymond r. McNair: Australia: C. Wayne Cole South America: Benjamin L. Rea South Africa: Gerald Waterhouse Germany: Frank Schnee BflSiueu Manager

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